Improved mode op fastening buttons on shoes



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Letters PeteHtOL-Q', dated SeptemberQS, 1869.

IMPROVED MDE 0F FASTFN'ING- BUTTONS ON SHOES, 8m.

l'he Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, CHARLES C. MORGAN, ot' the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the'Manner of Fastening Buttons on Shoes and other articles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichn Figure 1 represents in perspective the button, strap, and washer, as they would appear when the cloth or leather to which they are to beunited is removed.

Figure 2 represents in perspective the preparatory steps taken for an easy putting together of the several parts of the fastening, before they are clinched down in the material.

Figure 3 represents in perspective the position of the several metallic parts, `just previous to their being united to eachother and 'the cloth, leather, or other material.

Figure 4. represents a section through washer, strap,

. cloth, or leether, and eye of the button, as .they appear when iirmly clinched down and united together.

` Similar letters 0f reference, where they occur in the several gures, denote like parts of the eontrivance in all ofthe drawings.

I am aware that washers have been used in various ways in uniting buttons to cloth or leather. To this, I of course lay no claim, independent of my inode of using and uniting the strap, washer, and button.

As generally, if not universally practised, the strap, neck,shank, or wire, which passes through the'was'her, is clinched, riveted, or left exposedlunder the washer, where it is apt to rub or chafe theperson. As` Sel terminatechit comes next theskin. L, j l e My inventionconsists-in the use of atwo-barred or three-holed washer, through which thestrap, or its equivalent, which holds the button to the material and the washer, is irst `inserted with its twoends together.` Then said ends spread, each passing separately through lateral openings tothat side or surface of the washer where it was rst entered, and then clinched down, which gives to the ends of the strap a tucked-under position, and terminates them on top of instead of underneath the washer, which not only makes a strong and unyielding fastening, but-one which cannotinjure or chafe the skin of the wearer or To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

a represents an ordinary shoe-button;

b, the strap;

c, the washer; and

al, the cloth, leather, or other material, to, on, or against which they are fastened.

The washer c should have an even numbcr'of bars, and an odd vnumber of holes on or in it. I have shown two bars,and consequently three holes, which I have found to be sulicient for any ordinarypuipose. More Inaybe,'but less cannot well be used.

If the washer c be'used in a lat condition, which .it can be, it makes it tedious to insert the ends of the strap, and to tuck iu its ends around the hars and through the openings, and to bring them'on top of the washer, or between it and the material to which the button is to be fastened.' Still it can he done.

To facilitate the putting together of the button, cloth, or leather, and washer, I bend the latter up into a saddle-form, as shown in ligs. 2 and 3. .The strap b, havingbeen passed through the eye of the button, has its two ends, as shown in iig..2, curved slightly outward. Theseends are together passed through the top or central openingof the three in the washer, and the springing or curved condition of said ends," on being pressed downward, each finds its lateral opening, and passes outward through it, as seen Vin fig-: 3, sothat the ends of the strap are upon the same side of the washer that they were entered at, only they were entered together and come out separately. New, when in this position, and having the cloth or leatherA interposed between the button4 and washer, if the washer be flattened out by any applied pressure or force, the several parts will assume the positions shown in fig. 4, and form a neat andstrong fastening, and with the ends of the strap terminating above the washer.

The ends of 'the strap, instead of passing through lateral holes in the washer, may pass to and over thel edges or ends of the washer, and be folded down ca top thereof. This, though not so good or neat a fin-l' ish, would still embraze my general plan of terminating the ends of the strapon top of the washer, or between it andthe cloth or leathcr,or tuckiug them over or on the washer.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combined use of al strap and-washer for uniting buttons to cloth, leather, or other material, when the ends of:Z said strap are brought out, over, or on top of said washer, and between it and the cloth, leather, or other material, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described and represented.

CHAS. (l. MORGAN.

Witnesses: f

H. V. PARTRIDGE, J'. B. HENLEY. 

